Request for Review: enemies-of-carlotta

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:41 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > On Apr 5, 2005 4:35 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >>>Any other thoughts on this? Do we check and modify software (and break
> >>>expected behaviour) in order to pass political correctness tests?
> >>
> >>IMO, certainly not.  If anyone doesn't-like/is-offended-by
> >>politically-incorrect software "foo" in Extras, they have the right to
> >>not use it and/or take their issues upstream.
> 
> > I will note that software has been previously purged from RH
> > distributions for being "incorrect" (e.g. "bitchx").
> 
> We're not talking about a commerical RedHat distribution, nor even 
> Fedora Core here, but Extras.
> 

Well bitchx was also removed b/c it was broken and did kinda nasty
things for the user who didn't configure it to the Nth degree.

oh and i think unicode brokenness was the 'official' reason it got
pulled.

Nevertheless, I say something like enemies-of-my-mom or whatever is fine
- if the upstream author gets a lot of abuse, well, that's his/her
problem and I won't even remotely feel bad about it. :)

-sv